Saturday, May 13, 2017

Although the network affiliation of Omaha's KPTM (Fox42) is with Fox, the station is actually owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, the ultra-right wing behemoth.
Sinclair has a history of outrageous conservative
bias. In Nebraska, it owns KWNB-TV in Hayes Center, KHGI in
Kearney-Hastings, KFXL in Lincoln, KHGI-CD in North Platte, and KPTM
and KXVO in Omaha.
Sinclair is in the process of acquiring Tribune Media properties and soon may challenge Fox as a right-wing media power center.
The New York Times has revealed that "must-runs" arrive every day at TV stations owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group.
In 2004, Sinclair fired its own Washington, D.C. bureau chief for telling the Baltimore Sun that a 45-minute film the firm planned to air on its stations, "Stolen Honor: Wound The Never Heal" was "biased political propaganda" targeting then-candidate John Kerry. The Times noted that since November 2015, Sinclair has ordered its stations to run a “Terrorism Alert Desk”
daily segment that the company provides, and that during last year's presidential election, Sinclair distributed video that suggested in
part that voters should not support Hillary Clinton because the
Democratic Party was historically pro-slavery.
There was more:

In
late 2013, for instance, after The Seattle Times wrote an editorial
criticizing Sinclair’s purchase of KOMO, Sinclair ordered KOMO to do a
story critical of the newspaper industry, and of The Seattle Times in
particular, according to two of the people interviewed.

KOMO
journalists were surprised in January when, at a morning planning
meeting, they received what they considered an unusual request. The
station’s news director, who normally avoided overtly political stories,
instructed his staff to look into an online ad that seemed to be recruiting paid protesters
for President Trump’s inauguration. Right-leaning media organizations
had seized on the ad, which was later revealed as a hoax, as proof of
coordinated efforts by the left to subvert Mr. Trump.

Only
after reporters had left the room did they learn the origin of the
assignment, two of them said: The order had come down from Sinclair.

Maynard (Bob "Gilligan's Island" Denver) slyly flashes a nipple to the CBS eye while trying to talk his best buddy Dobie Gillis (Dwayne Hick­man) into taking off all his clothes. Whoever said 1950s television was a vast waste­land obviously didn't know where to look.